THE EDITOR, Sir
AS I write, my ears are being bombarded by the re-broadcast (through loudspeakers) of a radio music programme about 500 metres away. This is only a part of the disrespectful behaviour we now get from a very large number of our people here in Jamaica today.
The sad part about this is that many of them don't even know that noise nuisance is against the law and about the damage it can do to other people. Some people, myself included, believe that the lower music frequencies, which travel along the ground and cause the boom! boom! that we hear, is the more serious.
I like music and often listen to radio and television but if the day ever comes that my immediate neighbours, who, I must add, do not play loud music, have to ask me to turn the volume down I will be willing to compensate to the amount of $10,000 for the violation of their solitude.
As well as the fixed systems, we now have a proliferation of vehicles fitted with amplifiers of 500 watts output and much higher driven by egotistical males who it appears don't know how to switch the thing off at the end of their journey. And we pontificate about giving hearing-impaired people a licence to drive!
I would be very grateful if you could publish this letter in the hope that the programme controllers of all radio/TV stations will read it and include a message to their listeners to keep the volume down.
P. FOSTER
Southfield
St. Elizabeth.
